There are a hundred old veteran minor league guys coaching in the minors. Still riding the buses in hope of getting a shot at the "The Show." They would give their right arm for the shot that Riggleman got. And he threw it all down the tubes in a paranoid temper tantrum.

Riggleman's quitting was some paranoid temper tantrum? Uhhmm, no. He walked away from money and a hard to come by job over principle. Riggleman was right to quit, in my mind, and it was his right, an objective right, to quit. The only temper tantrums are from folks who have a problem with it, Rizzo included. And post Riggleman's "career suicide" as Zuck called it he's now been hired by 2 clubs in less than a year so he's likely not feeling as if his reputation is shattered.dfh21

AA managers are important in an organization's development process–these are their best prospects. He may or may not be back in the majors someday, but if he is to do so, this will be a good place to stay relevant until the right opening comes along.

jd — It is not a question of whether you or anyone else thinks Riggleman made a bad career move. Riggleman knew he was walking away from a managerial gig and he knew it would be hard to get another one (he went 9 years between managing gigs before), he thought the siutation not tolerable so he quit. He had a right to quit. It's his life. You or I may not have made the call he made, but so what.dfh21

I am thinking he'ss be a bench coach in 2013, say in SF maybe, or the Mets, likely an NL club. And when the manager he's workign with gets axed, Riggleman is back at the helm. Look at history, Francona, Torre, McNamarra, LaRussa, Leyland . . . guys who have doen get chancers to do it again. His odds are as good as anyone's to land a manager job going forward. The Nats looked like cheap idiots for not picking up his option after they extended Rizzo for 5 years and left Riggleman hanging, they could have picked up the option and still fired the guy in the off-season and owed him a whopping $600K for his trouble but they were not ready to make than kind of commitment to a manager winning games with their lousy club. Fools.

The Marlins were actually true to their word on expanding payroll and getting a frontline player in Reyes. I am very surprised. If it helps them sell a few dozen luxury suites then the strategy will pay-off. If they can't figure out a way to increase their revenues substantially, it could kill them down the road.Now the interesting part will be how Hanley Ramirez is handled. Does Hanley move to 3rd base or to another team?I am hearing the Nats have some interest in Michael Cuddyer. He certainly isn't a CF but could play RF. I hope the Nats pounce on Buehrle sooner than later to get the first big move done.

No inside knowledge but the bottom line in my opinion is Riggleman was never Rizzo's guy. Manny Acta was the one who brought Jim to DC at a time when Bowden, who was still the GM, wanted to bring in Willie Randolph. Rizzo was an assistant to Bowden until that whole Dominican thing blew up in Jimbo's face and Rizzo got the interim tag on his title. When the Nats decided to fire Acta in July 2009 Riggs was the logical guy on the staff to replace him and Rizzo "rewarded" him, after kicking a few tires for another manager, with a series of what amounts to one year contracts, i.e., little job security in a business that most everyone involved in is seeking. When Rizzo brought DJ in as an "advisor" for spring training I think Jim saw the handwriting on the wall…"you're not really my guy so get off to a slow start and we will replace you." When the Nats got to the start they did Rizzo could not make a move to Johnson nor did he have a reason to do so. At the same time Riggleman says "hey lets talk about my contract", Rizzo says no and Jim says "..know what, if I'm not your guy for next year or 2013 I'm not your guy for right now. Take this job and shove it." Career suicide maybe, but I respect Jim Riggleman for sticking up for his principles.

I tell you, this is the biggest mystery of baseball. It's like making a choice, either you get a million dollars or you become cluster nun? In most cases that's an easy decision but Riggelman wants to make things tough on himself. Hope he enjoys the lifestyle of class AA baseball, just another case of someone that tries to shot himself and instead of dying just cripples himself.

no matter how much the NATS screwed him over, which i think they def did… he deserves every minute of what he's getting… as a manager you dont quit on your players period… if you do, you're not fit to be a manager.